Hanging Quotes Talking Book Arts Poetry Typography
Publisher: Cuneiform Press
Published: Nov 01, 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780982792667
Description: "Conducted over the course of four decades ... a landmark oral history project comprised of nineteen interviews with pioneer book artists, typographers, and poets ... He discusses the transition from cast metal to digital type with the prime movers in the field: Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone, and Fred Smeijers; and he takes stock of the field of artists' books in wide-ranging conversations with Sandra Kirshenbaum and Joan and Nathan Lyons, while his groundbreaking interviews with Dave Haselwood, Holbrook Teter, Bob Hawley, Walter Hamady, and Graham Mackintosh shed new light on the history of the book in the 20th century"--Back cover blurb.